Betty Parsons Quotes
My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.
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My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
